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Observation Task 4

Choose, justify and reflect on the selection of appropriate routines and explain practical aspects of
their implementation.

Reflect on how routines can impact classroom environment (pacing, preventive CRM,
student engagement)
Choose and justify the selection of appropriate routines (entering/leaving the class,
transitions, submitting work, resource distribution) in a range of contexts (ages, gender,
class size, school context, class dynamics, parental support)
Explain practical aspects of implementation (clear instructions consistency)

TASK DESCRIPTION
The task is made up of two activities:
Activity 1: Observing Classroom Routines and Procedures
Activity 2: Planning for/Developing Routines and Procedures
You are to complete BOTH Activity 1 AND Activity 2.

Activity One: Observing Classroom Routines and Procedures

Though there are many routines and procedures all over the school such as returning from assembly
or walking in the hallways, this task focuses on what happens inside of your classroom only.
During the first week of your teaching practice observe your MST and her/his classroom. Make a note
of five (5) routines that you see her/him use every day inside of the classroom. Fill in the table below
to describe EACH routine; when and where it is used; and what is the aim of the routine or the
student behavior that it hopes to achieve.

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Name/Descriptio
n of the routine.

Give the
instructions
that the
routine uses

When and
where the
routine is used?
(e.g. at the end of
the school day
etc.; or to guide
presentations
after group work)

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Aim of the
routine
(what student
behavior it
hopes to
achieve)

Sounds of letters

Say the letters In the classroom

after the
whole the
teacher
student in the
morning

To save and
know the figure
of the letter
and the right
sound

Line up

Line up when
the children
go to any
where

To learn
management

When the
children go to
wash their hand
or to play
ground.

How did/do the students

learn about this routine?
How is the routine
reinforced?
(e.g. mentoring; classroom signs;
reminders by the teacher; use of
peer interaction by the teacher
to promote such behavior etc.)

The children learn the letters

with the sound and it
reinforced when I ask the
about the sounds or the
letters they give me the right
answer.
I can control them easy and
then knew what are the rules
for line up.

Document
(If possible, take a photo
of the routine as it is
happening, or of any
display related to the
routine)
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Activity Two: Planning for/Developing Routines and Procedures

Plan the routines for one of your classes. The activity expects that you will teach the class. It
may be a class that you teach for an observation by your MST/MCT or just a practice class that
you teach with the permission of your MST. The lesson can be incorporated as one of your
formal observations if your MST/MCT decides. In order to complete the activity you are
required (whether the lesson is one of your formal observations or not) to fill in and submit the
planning sheet below.
Before you begin to complete the table talk a little bit about the class/lesson in which this plan
for routines is to be used. Include:

Lesson objectives
Main activities in the lesson
Grouping of students during each main activity
Behaviour expected during each activity (e.g. sharing resources; changing stations;
presenting)
Where are the transitions in the lesson? What are they: (e.g. moving from plenary to
group work between main activity one and main activity two)

Class/Year
KG2/B 2016

Routine

Procedure

When/how this
routine worked in
the class?
It teach the
children how to
manage
themselves

Learning Objective of
the routine/procedure
(what it hopes to
achieve)

Line up

Speak loudly and

say line up KG2

Anecdotal Evidence
(e.g. pictures of your
class during the
routine; posters of
rules etc.)

Picture that
have the
rules

It works to control
children and
manage them
selves

Place in todays class

(when will you perform
the routine)
Importance to the
smooth functioning of
todays class
How well did this
routine work in todays

In the
classroom, in
morning
It makes the
children
positive
Repeat the
information

If someone dont
follow the rule
the teacher point
on the rule and
ask the child
what is this?
Make the
children
management
By remember
them every day
Use flash cards

It works in the
class

It works to make
the children know
the rules
Use easy language
to understand

Anecdotal
Evidence

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class
If you had to teach this
class over, how would
you adjust this routine
and why

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Let the
children
apply the
rules

Ask the children

what is the right
and what is the
wrong

In works and it
makes the
children
remember